Word: shakeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentine army is split, the navy is not. Aramburu hastily deployed 16 warships in the River Plate off Buenos Aires and La Plata. Insurrectionary fervor cooled off fast. At week's end Bengoa was under arrest, and the government announced, reassuringly, that the shakeup would not be made a pretext for postponing elections...
...four years for P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent). His predecessor, William J. Halley, 58, moved down to head the finance committee. A native New Yorker, Gruber got a law degree from Tennessee's Cumberland University ('14), joined Lorillard in 1922 as a salesman. The executive shakeup. which also brought in a new advertising director, gives more company control to sales experts, less to financial and advertising advisers. Lorillard sales have dropped steadily since 1953; this year's first-quarter sales of $47 million were off $10 million from the same 1955 period...
...Ringling faces elephant-size problems. In the past year close to 100 top staffers have been fired or quit in protest against John Ringling North's management shakeup and attempts to "Hollywoodize" the show. Recently union contract negotiations broke down before the Madison Square Garden opening; Ringling has since been picketed by the American Guild of Variety Artists. Last week in Boston many of Ringling's top artists worked in a cut-rate, "kiddies free" A.G.V.A. circus aimed at luring business away from Ringling, threatened to carry the competition to every town played by the "Greatest Show...
Trouble erupted in November, when Reporter James Ratliff Jr., who had led the employees' campaign, accused top management under Publisher Roger Ferger of feathering its own nest at the paper's expense. Ratliff lost his job, but gradually began winning his demands for a management shakeup...
...following must figure in the final shakeup: Eisenhower, Nixon, Salk, Pope Pius XII, Eden, Adenauer, Nehru and Tito. There seems to be no top man in Russia nor did one emerge in Argentina after the deposition of Perón. Pope Pius XII is always in the running, but TIME would have to deal with so many canceled subscriptions that it is very unlikely that he will ever make the grade. Eden has taken up residence at No. 10 Downing Street, while the "Old Man" from West Germany is still in the field. The enigmas are Nehru and Tito; because...